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and a little greater in the male than the distance between them and 

 the nearest point on the eye margin and in the nervellus being 

 antefurcal. 



PHOTOCRYPTUS PHOTOMORPHUS. new species. 



Type-locality. — Sapucay, Asuncion, Paraguay, December, 1904, 

 J. D. Anisits. 



Type. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Female. — Length 14 mm.; yellow and shming, front, except a 

 border along the eyes and back of the ocelli, vertex and superior 

 half of the occiput, superior aspect of the pedicel and the fiagel 

 mostly black, the latter bro^vnish near its base beneath, mandibles 

 with blackish tips, mesonotum with lateral, median and a posterior 

 band black, scutel black posteriorly, mesosternum black except for 

 a yellow band on each side, mesopleuree ^vith a black mark adjoining 

 the prepectal carina and a black band near the superior margin, 

 prepectus mosll}^ black, wings mcluding the stigma and the veins of 

 the outer half yellowish stramineous, the remaining veins blackish, 

 fore and mid legs almost entirely yellow, their onychii and the 

 appendages of the latter more or less brownish, hind legs with yellow 

 coxse that are black at the base beneath and at the apex above, 

 their proximal trochanter yellow beneath, black above, their distal 

 trochanter mostly blackish, their femora mostly yellowish on the 

 basal half and testaceous on the apical half, their tibiae yellow or 

 yellowish at base and above and beneath, elsewhere brownish, 

 their tarsi mostly blackish, their metatarsi pale beneath, metapleursB 

 and mesopleurffi black along their contiguous edges; propodeum 

 black in front of the basal transverse carina and with a blacldsh 

 mark on each side and down the middle back of the basal trans- 

 verse carina; first, abdominal segment with blackish sides and with 

 most of the posterior fourth of the petiole and all but an apical 

 margin of the postpetiole brownish, all but an apical margin and a 

 narrow lateral margin of the second, dorsal segment brownish or 

 black, the third, dorsal segment brownish and yellow at base, thence 

 black with an apical yellow margin as in all except the apical segment, 

 the remaining segments black with an apical yellow margm that 

 occupies all or nearly all of the sides of the segment, apical dorsal 

 segment black, ventral abdominal segments colored in much the 

 same way as the dorsal segments, sheaths of the ovipositor some- 

 what longer than the abdomen. 



PHOTOPTERA, new genus. 



Type. — Photoptera erythronota, new species. 



Related to ParapJiylax (Foerster) Ashmead from which it dijBfers 

 especially in the well defined notauh and in the Diaghyptidea-]ike 

 palpi. 



